These are the Dating steps in Brazil. How is it in your country?

Inspired by an old reply of mine, here I go.

So, let’s try to make a timeline of events here acording to “Brazilian standards” in general (but some steps or all steps can be skipped, depending on the mutual feelings, who knows, maybe stars are aligned and you guys decide to marry the day you met ahahaha):

1. Let’s say you 2 met in a bar or match on tinder or whatever ->
2. start getting to know each other (no comitment at all) ->
3. starting doing stuff together (the whole stuff starts to happen from time to time, hooking up – situationship with no comitment, friends with benefits) ->
4. start dating, but not officially (you see each other regularlly and decide to be monogamous – nobody is hooking up with other people, situationship, friends with benefits BUT it’s getting serious) (it might be skipped) ->
5. somebody asks somebody “would you be my boyfriend/girlfriend?” (in Brazil, we generally verbalize it, we make it clear that “we are oficially boyfriend and girlfriend”) ->
6. after a while, commitment ring (it might be skipped) ->
7. after a while, engagement ring ->
8. marriage.

FOR GAY FOLKS: the same way, but many times with no commitment ring

Commitment Ring’s a sign that you two intend to marry one day. It’s used in the ring finger of the right hand and it signals that you’re in a serious and official relationship that is intended to end up in a marriage, it’s like signaling to everybody that you’re already taken.

How is it in your country? Is it the same way or it has more steps? Let’s talk relationships!